Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1988. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 319, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, 278 pages. First edition. A recipe book of traditional French cooking, from the French wife of the British consul in Calais. The recipes are distinctly northern French. Fine in a slightly sun faded dust jacket.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 102 pages. Index. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann issued the book in England the same year. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of.....
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1968. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), x, 124 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The author's first cookbook. While this small work is far from the first American cookbook to treat Mexican, or Mexican-American cooking, it is one of the first truly sympathetic and respectful accounts of the cuisine. The author is also well-known for his poetry, and the complete body of his cookbooks is seen.....
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. First. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks.....
New Orleans: Published by Dorothea Thompson, 1952. [Mary Moore Bremer]. Octavo-size (21 x 14.5 cm.), [ii], 86, [iv] pages. Illustrated. Table of contents. Index. Title and author from cover. Date of publication from edition statement on preliminary page [ii]. Photoreproduced engravings depicting historic buildings throughout. ~ Stated fourteenth edition. A later entry in the sequence of editions of an admired cookbook, first published in Waveland, Mississippi in 1932 (under the.....
Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1984. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 365, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Very light soil, otherwise near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.
Philadelphia/New York: Curtis Publishing Company/Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Ladies' Home Journal Household Library. Duodecimo, 245 pages. Later printing. A pocket sized cookbook from the founder of the Philadelphia School of Cookery, and a member of the staffs of both Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good. In publisher's gilt- and green-stamped dark green cloth. [Not in Cagle].
London: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790. Quarto, xxii + 476 pages. [leaf containing pages 169/170 in duplicates]. First edition of this collection of English Royal Household Manuscripts. The text discusses the duties and management of all of the staff of a royal household, including wages. The book concludes with the first printing of a collection of Fifteenth Century and earlier recipes, "From a Ms. in.....
Manchester: Thomas Bradford & Co., 1903. Quarto (23 x 20 cm.), 68 pages. Illustrated. Index. Catalogue 1159. A trade catalogue of cooking apparatus from Thomas Bradford & Co., operators of Crescent Iron Works of Salford. The ‘Cooking Appliances and Kitchen Scullery Fittings’ delineated include, Steam Cooking Pans, Beef Tea Cooking Pans, Vegetable and Pudding Steam Ovens, Kitchen Ranges, Gas Roasting Oven, Steam Carving Table and Hot Closet, Steam Hot Closet.....